this was good news that could have been very bad news.

how many mothers and siblings have been shot by children lately? A lot and way too many. Just in case it raises a question: ONE is too damn many.

Plaxico's charges were from New York State which had/has jurisdiction. Any charges regarding accidental or negligent firing of a gun would be state based charges unless those incidents take place on federal land or on or within a federally operated facility. The levels of offenses are felony, misdemeanor and summary.

Federal offenses generally have relevance to actions over which the federal government has jurisdiction. Kidnapping becomes a federal offense if interstate activity is involved. Mail fraud is always a federal offense as the US Post Office is under federal jurisdiction.

Most states have laws for negligence with guns and this guy should get his day in court.

....did not have a license to carry in the jurisdiction in which he was arrested.

New York.

Major problem.

unless he was a prohibited person. The federal law you are thinking of applied only to K-12 and was struck down over twenty years ago because it violated the tenth amendment.
I didn't see race mentioned, but we are much less of a racist society and more of a classist society, as the Ray Rice and Shaneen Allen cases shows. Or at least that one New Jersey DA, since it was he same guy.

....a Glock in the 'nutzak' they sew into the front of surfboard shorts.

It slipped due to plenty of extra space.

And he grabbed for it as it fell.

BOOM.

How does a gun discharge? I was under the impression that guns are innocent and harmless machines that only inflict harm when fired by bad people (who aren't prevented from doing so by good people with guns).

Can it be that a gun is capable of discharging on its own? Wouldn't that mean that guns do kill people?

Or is this yet another in an extremely long list of gun-crazed assholes who shouldn't have access to anything more dangerous than Nerf ball? Someone tell me why this criminally negligent fool should be permitted to carry an implement of murder?

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Ban HAND GUNS NOW!!

Rifles, shotguns.. let those stay legal.. hard to conceal.

I like to argue that people who make policy read political websites such as DU to 'take the pulse' of public opinion.

In this case, hopefully, not so much.

...in real world politics as they noise levels might indicate.
IOW, they tend to be all show and no go.

....cut and paste a lot.

And call people nutjobs if they have different opinions.

Answer: Nutjobs with handguns -who else? Nutjobs with flashlights? Nope.

bad guys.

They will use anything that hurts.

Because I can hear you just fine.

THE ONLY bad guys killing people WITH HANDGUNS

I'm not a bad guy, and I don't kill people.

"Do I really have to explain that simple deduction to you?"

No, but next time just hit me in the head with a shovel. It would be a more subtle approach.

...that people are getting so nasty.

Yes, logically, you could certainly say that it is necessary to have a handgun in order to kill someone with a handgun.

No argument.

No, handguns are not doing the killing. People with them are doing the killing. The handgun is the tool.

Hammers don't build nice houses or ugly houses. They are just used to hammer nails.

No, I'm not dense.

So what do you propose, instead of just raging online?

Would you like some contact information to become a firearms safety instructor?

If you do, you're part of a minority amongst those of your viewpoint.

Gun owners tend to do all four of these at a much, much higher rate-
and that's why your mooted handgun ban will not happen in the foreseeable future

of those at a "high rate".

Only by pulling trigger.
NO they are not. They don't "just go off", especially handguns.

leaves the trigger exposed to objects that can snag the trigger and "pull" it.

While guns are designed to save lives, like any other machine they have to be properly used.

but it's a shame that that discharge only caused a hole in his pocket rather than making him incapable of spawning any more progeny.

...yet you are here expressing a fantasy in which someone gets very seriously injured.

Just how does that work...?

A rhetorical question, of course. You provided the answer in your original comment.

....so we can live in a peaceful world.

Weird.

but yet so far

I'm pro rights as anyone, but your post made me laugh.

If you're going to carry a gun, please do not fiddle with the trigger. These firearms don't go off without booger hook to trigger contact.